That was Barry for you Fiolar. I think we can be sure Collins would never have sent an adversary such a message in similar circumstances.

Spud you couldn't have put that across better. I'm still not sure about the bomb though. I read John Hersey's profoundly distressing account of it (now published as "Hiroshima" but originally run in the New Yorker, cover to cover across a single issue) and if those bombs really were the lesser of two evils, it must have been a close call.